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LLMs und Agentic AI sind derzeit Hype. Richtig angewendet können sie extreme positive Effekte bringen. Dieses Buch zeigt, vor welchen Herausforderungen man in großen Unternehmen und speziell auch in regulierten Umfeldern bei der Einführung stehen wird. Das Buch ist eine leicht lesbare Einführung für IT-nahe Führungskräfte und Enterprise Architekten und auch nützlich für IT-Profis allgemein, die in das Thema einsteigen möchten und absehbare Projektfehler vermeiden möchten

In unethical software, not every line of code is written with good intentions. Unethical Software Engineering: Dark Patterns exposes how to manipulate users, drive profits, and evade accountability. From covert surveillance, monetization at all costs, digital fraud, ranking manipulation, all the way to unethical artificial intelligence practices, this scary book unveils how these "dark patterns" exploit human beings, erode trust, and disrupt digital ethics.Whether you're a developer, an architect, a tech enthusiast, or simply a concerned user, this book will change how you think about your daily apps — and inspire you to demand better. By helping you to draw the line between what is acceptable and what is questionable, Unethical Software Engineering: Dark Patterns shines a light on the digital dark side of software engineering where profits are prioritized over people.

It's not 1998 anymore. It's been over 30 years since Linux was first released, and the Linux Desktop has undergone seismic shifts in usability and capability over the years. This book is designed for the modern age and helps you take advantage of all the latest technology available for desktop Linux. Even if you've used Linux before, things have changed a lot in just the last few years. Whether you're worried Windows no longer has your best interests at heart, or you're just plain curious, this guide will help you get up and running while avoiding all of the usual potholes and footguns along the way.

In un mondo dove ogni byte ha un impatto, Sustainable IT, the practical way è la guida per trasformare la sostenibilità digitale da slogan a pratica quotidiana. Niente teoria astratta: questo libro ti accompagna passo dopo passo nel processo di analisi dei numeri, monitoraggio dei risultati e definizione di OKR capaci di generare un vero piano d’azione. Imparerai a distinguere ciò che conta davvero da ciò che è solo rumore, a misurare l’efficienza energetica dei tuoi sistemi e a collegare i dati operativi alle decisioni strategiche. Attraverso esempi concreti, strumenti pronti all’uso e una metodologia testata in workshop reali, scoprirai come rendere sostenibile ogni fase del ciclo di vita digitale — dal codice all’infrastruttura, dal prodotto alle persone. Il libro integra e applica le best practice della Green Software Foundation, traducendole in un linguaggio accessibile e operativo per chi vuole fare la differenza, oggi.

Ветеран Cray Research (Крей Рисёрч) рассказывает, как первопроходцы справлялись с подавляющей сложностью: распознавание закономерностей, предвосхитившее Мидуэй, системное мышление, изобретшее память на магнитных сердечниках. Опыт из одной области, применённый по-новому, сформировал суперкомпьютерную отрасль.

For thirty-five years, St. Paul welcomed America's most wanted criminals. John Dillinger, Ma Barker, Babyface Nelson, all found sanctuary under the O'Connor Layover Agreement. Commit no crimes in the city, pay your bribes, and police looked the other way. This volume explores protected spaces across centuries. "First Rate" traces the phrase to HMS Victory and the Age of Sail. "Safe Havens Then and Now" draws an uncomfortable parallel between gangster-era protection rackets and modern tech platforms—Google's reCAPTCHA crowdsourcing labor, Twitter's bot ecosystem, Carnegie Mellon finding half of COVID tweets came from bots. "Where Computers Come From" reveals why computing's origins stayed classified: the machines were built for cryptology. A secret company in St. Paul constructed America's first stored-program computers. Seymour Cray learned his craft there. Three essays. Three protected spaces. One question: who benefits from the shelter?

What if surviving Big Tech’s power imbalance requires the same mindset as surviving a blizzard on Mount Rainier, or resisting indoctrination as a POW? Surviving Spring Break on the Mountain: The Power of Experiential Education weaves together SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape) lessons, software ethics, climbing expeditions, and centuries‑old navigation wisdom to show how you can stay principled, sharp, and intact when the system around you isn’t. Through gripping real‑world stories and hard‑earned insight, this book gives you a practical path to doing what’s right, and helping others do the same.

A Cray Research veteran narrates how pioneers handled overwhelming complexity: pattern recognition anticipating Midway, systems thinking inventing magnetic core memory. Experience from one domain, applied in a new way, shaped supercomputing.

Unlock the secrets to skyrocketing website traffic, mastering SEO, and dominating Google’s first page with practical strategies, expert insights, and long-term growth techniques.

Some things talk. Some things glow. Some things smile— but don’t really know!! In a world full of blinking lights and friendly voices, this book is a soft reminder: Real listens. Real stays. Real holds. For children and the grown-ups who love them, Where Real Lives is a quiet journey toward recognizing what’s real—and keeping it close.

A manifesto against simulated empathy.A blueprint for ethical design.This is not a book about AI—it’s about what we mistake it for.

How Software Fails: A Field Guide to Understanding Complex System DisastersSoftware failures aren’t accidents, they’re inevitable. From cosmic rays flipping bits to tiny files crashing millions of machines, our most critical systems collapse in ways no one foresaw. Through gripping cases, the $460M Knight Capital meltdown, the lethal Therac-25, a file grounding global air travel, this book uncovers the hidden rules of complex disasters. Drawing on Richard Cook’s principles, it shows why testing can’t guarantee safety, how “reasonable” choices spawn chaos, and why scale makes the impossible certain. But it’s also about resilience: NASA’s Mars rovers, Netflix’s chaos engineering, and the ethics of life-critical systems. For engineers, managers, or curious readers, this guide reshapes how you see the fragile systems running our world.

This is a work of fiction that attempts to document what might happen if a fictional Wisc senior citizen named Lefty Insider attempts to seek justice against exploitation from a fictional monopolistic corporation, (identified as Charpectrum), through the Federal and State Consumer Protection systems.This fictional tale seeks to imagine what a realistic experience would be like if a well-informed, educated and technically competent persistently stubborn consumer, of German ancestry, sought the protection of government agencies against the financial and marketing exploitation from a rapacious and malevolent incumbent monopoly Internet service provider corporation.This is also a story about elected idiots, liars, fools, incompetents, bureaucrats, and of course is but a fictional story about imagined government run Consumer Protection systems.

Audiencing is something we do everyday. We do it all the time. In fact, we are so familiar with giving attention to someone or something how we audience and the types of audiencing we are do are invisible. This book makes visible four types of audiencing, and you will discover what it means to do each form of audiencing and why this matters. Playful popular quotes, academic research, and anecdotes from numerous fields of endeavour from computer programming to jujitsu, from movie editing to watching a friend play football, are all used to demonstrate the characteristics and challenges of each audiencing type. Ultimately, Audiencing presents a far-reaching concept and a useful language to see and understand ourselves as audiences in our work and study, in the arts, communications, sport, on the internet, and in our everyday lives as we audience each other. To discover more – audience on.

Did you ever wonder which ChatBot fits you better? Could bots have distinct personalities? And what about inference transparency, like system prompts? Explore how AI models and frontends differ in structure, personality, and usability – and find the best fit for your needs!